General Fiction
Emma (version 2)
Read by Sibella Denton
Jane Austen
Emma is a comic novel by Jane Austen, first published in 1816, about the perils of misconstrued romance. The main character, Emma Woodhouse,…
Triplanetary
Read by Mark F. Smith
E. E. “Doc” Smith
“Doc” E.E. Smith pretty much invented the space opera genre, and Triplanetary is a good and well-known example. Physics, time, and politics …
The Iron Heel
Read by Matt Soar
Jack London
A dystopian novel about the terrible oppressions of an American oligarchy at the beginning of the Twentieth Century, and the struggles of a …
Phaedrus
Read by Martin Geeson
Plato
“For there is no light of justice or temperance, or any of the higher ideas which are precious to souls, in the earthly copies of them: they…
The Lost House
Read by Crln Yldz Ksr
Richard Harding Davis
Austin Ford, the London correspondent of the New York Republic, is spending some idle time in the American Embassy chatting with the Second …
The Semi-Attached Couple
Read by Elizabeth Klett
Emily Eden
Young and beautiful Helen Eskdale and fabulously wealthy Lord Teviot seem to be the perfect match. But when they marry, they find that misun…
The Room in the Dragon Volant
Read by Elizabeth Klett
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
J. Sheridan LeFanu's Gothic mystery novel is narrated by Richard Beckett, a young Englishman abroad in Napoleonic-era France. He falls insta…
Mrs. Peter Rabbit
Read by C. L. W. Rollins
Thornton W. Burgess
A wonderful book in which we meet the lucky little bunny who becomes Mrs. Peter Rabbit! This is one of many delightful animal books written …
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (version 4)
Read by Eric Leach
Lewis Carroll
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (commonly shortened to Alice in Wonderland) is an 1865 novel written by English author Charles Lutwidge Dod…
The Seven Secrets
Read by Tom Weiss
William Le Queux
A true “whodunit” with as many twists and turns as an English country road. Old man Courtenay is found murdered in his bed. Dr. Ralph Boyd i…
Jill the Reckless
Read by Don W. Jenkins
P. G. Wodehouse
Jill had money, Jill was engaged to be married to Sir Derek Underhill. Suddenly Jill becomes penniless, and she is no longer engaged. With a…
The Children's Book of Christmas Stories
Read by Alisa
Various
Many librarians have felt the need and expressed the desire for a select collection of children's Christmas stories in one volume. This book…
Huntingtower
Read by Simon Evers
John Buchan
Dickson McCunn, a respectable, newly retired grocer, plans a walking holiday in the hills of south-west Scotland. He meets a young English p…
The Call Of The Canyon
Read by Richard Kilmer (1942-2022)
Zane Grey
Glenn Kilbourne returns from the war and travels to Arizona to regain his health. There he is nursed back to health by an Arizona girl, Flo …
Ten Years Later
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Alexandre Dumas
After The Three Muskateers and Twenty Years After the adventurous story of Athos, Porthos, Aramis and D'Artagnan continues!The Vicomte of Br…
Persuasion (version 3)
Read by Moira Fogarty
Jane Austen
"All the privilege I claim for my own sex ... is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone." In persuasion, her …
The Adventures of Odysseus and the Tale of Troy
Read by Elizabeth Klett
Pádraic Colum
Also known as "The Children's Homer," this is Irish writer Padraic Colum's retelling of the events of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey fo…
Good Wives
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Louisa May Alcott
Louisa May Alcott's overwhelming success dated from the appearance of the first part of Little Women: or Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy, (1868) a sem…
Barnaby Rudge (version 2)
Read by Mil Nicholson
Charles Dickens
One of the two Historical novels Charles Dickens wrote, Barnaby Rudge is set around the ‘Gordon’ riots in London in 1780. The story begins i…
The Life And Adventures Of Nicholas Nickleby
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Charles Dickens
The action takes place in London, with excursions to Devon, Yorkshire, and Portsmouth, as we follow the adventures of the eponymous hero. Ni…